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Taiwan indicts Nvidia, Super Micro staff for China AI server exports

8/24/2026

Summary

Story summary

Taiwan prosecutors indicted nine Nvidia and Super Micro employees for illegally exporting AI servers to China.
Seventy-four Nvidia B300 GPU servers were smuggled, 50 via Indonesia, eight via Japan.
Defendants face breach-of-trust, document-forgery and embezzlement charges; prosecutors seek five-year prison terms.
The scheme began February 2025 after Flying Tiger Technology obtained a whitelist and ordered servers.
The U.S. Justice Department indicted Super Micro co-founder Liaw in a $2.5 billion diversion case.

History

Historical Context

After Cold-War-era export regimes like CoCom and later the Wassenaar Arrangement restricted high-performance computers, the United States began tightening licenses in the late 1990s, curbing sales of such systems to China. The 2024 indictment of nine Nvidia and Super Micro engineers for smuggling 74 B300 GPU servers shows that the same national-security concerns now drive enforcement against AI-hardware transfers.

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Story summary

Taiwan prosecutors indicted nine Nvidia and Super Micro employees for illegally exporting AI servers to China.
Seventy-four Nvidia B300 GPU servers were smuggled, 50 via Indonesia, eight via Japan.
Defendants face breach-of-trust, document-forgery and embezzlement charges; prosecutors seek five-year prison terms.
The scheme began February 2025 after Flying Tiger Technology obtained a whitelist and ordered servers.
The U.S. Justice Department indicted Super Micro co-founder Liaw in a $2.5 billion diversion case.

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